What Users Can Do to Aid Accessibility

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Learn How Assistive Technologies 'Read' Webpages

Assistive Technologies traverse documents using semantic tags. It will present a list of page headings 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. that the user uses to scan to the topic they are using . If headings are not used to section the page a screen reader user must read the entire document to locate the information they are looking for when they should be able to traverse to the section they want using the headings and only read the portion of the document they want. Just like a sighted user would scan the page and hone in on the section that contains the information they are looking for. Avoid long pages of text with no section headings.